The example to support the club during these uncertain times. Today eye crimed to talk with tiffani cross, political analyst and author of book say it louder, black voters, white narratives and sieving our dem. Tiffany has spent years in politics and media and witnessed the ways in which black voterrers are minimized and suppressed through both policy and media coverage. Say it louder builds on the work and explains the way in which black voters have been crucial in the same political system that were an dismissed from and although Voter Suppression is not new, Tiffany Cross asserts the change is coming by way of political activism and a demographic shift. I if you have a question you want me to ask tiffany later put it in the chat box in youtube or the comments facebook and the question will get to me. Thank you Tiffany Cross for joining us today. Thank you, aimee, for being in this conversation with me. Im so excited to have it, but im especially excited to have it with you. So looki
After 93 years the sole survivor. With the Third Generation owner. Think all of you for your support the authors like morgan would not be here today. Tonight im beyond thrilled to head him with us. To celebrate the release of her new book wandering in strain places. Morgan juergens jerkins i thoroughly recommend this. Also a visiting professor at columbia university. The short form work. Has been featured in the New York Times the atlantic Rolling Stone esquire in the guardian among many others. Based in harlem. Joining morgan in conversation. Born and raised in jackson mississippi that chilling professor. The author of the Long Division author. How to slowly kill yourself and others in america. Its also the author of the men were heavy. Named one of the best books. By the undefeated. The publishers weekly. In the library journal. The washington post. And Entertainment Weekly the San Francisco chronicle. In the New York Times critics. Without further ado. Please join me in welcoming hi
Welcome to booktvs fiction edition. Youve written 50 fiction books. Lets start with devil in a blue dress, the book that launched a series who is easy rawlins . Guest a kind of every man for the black community in the middle of the twentieth century. His whole view of himself has changed. He came back to southern texas and realized he could no longer live there because of what he has learned and he and thousands of others, from texas and louisiana moved to los angeles. What we do is follow him as a kind of unofficial detective. What he does is reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles that havent been talked about. Host how did you come up with the name . Guest i was writing a story and there was a voice speaking firstperson talking about a party he was given and how he was trying to raise money to pay his rent and a woman he was in love with who was in love with another guy and mouse comes in and looks at the person who is talking and says hey, e the, how are you doing . That
The committee will attempt to order. We are already having some technical problems. There we go. Thank you. Before i begin my Opening Statement this morning, i want to acknowledge the loss of congressman john lewis. The civil rights icon changed history. In 2015, i was honored to be among those who joined him in selma to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bloody sunday march 2011. I send my deepest condolences to his family and loved ones. Todays hearing comes at a time when our nation is experiencing confluence of the Health Crisis economic depression series of killings laid bare the racial injustices in our country. Our focus today is on covid19 disproportionate impact on black and latino seniors as well as seniors from other racial and ethnic minority movies. According to the New York Times analysis black and latino residents are infected with the virus at three times the rate of their white neighbors and they are nearly twice as likely to die from covid19. The state of maine h
The presiding justice of superior court and as us attorney who led undercover public investigations that involve wiretaps i have done this a lot and i viewed my role in those approvals as making sure the wiretap application was consistent with the criminal statute that we were trying to prosecute, that it was relevant to that. You werent an investigator, just making sure the material is in the statute. Correct. I think that probably very often took as an established fact that the fbi agent or Police Officer was telling us the truth, not customary prosecutorial practice to do an inquisition or a review of every statement made by an fbi agent or state Police Officer in preparing a warrant. If you have the slightest hint that something is wrong you definitely pursue that but the focus is more does this warrant a criminal case that we are making and that is the nature of the review at that level and you would hope the factual stuff would be sorted out before it got to the Deputy Attorney g